Shaun Hutson Books in Order

This first Incisions collection delivers a string of nasty little tales, from a baby held over stormy seas to monsters in tunnels, murderous wishes and a smart home that turns lethal, each story building quickly to a sharp, unsettling sting in the tail.

Cut Two continues the series with more stand‑alone horrors: a neighbour consumed by irrational dread, an artist using obscene materials, a sinister village initiation and a baby monitor that hears too much, all told in Hutson’s tight, no‑nonsense style with vicious finales.

Co written with Matt Shaw, this novella uses the first months of a global virus outbreak and lockdown to strip away politeness and show how fear, boredom and resentment can turn ordinary people into the ugliest kind of monsters.

Psychiatrist Jake Howard has no memory of his first ten years, but recurring nightmares and blackout visions are tearing his adult life apart. Returning to his decaying seaside hometown, he digs into buried files and family lies to uncover a horrifying origin.

Biographer Megan Hunter’s new book about a mutilated medieval poet brings sudden, ritualistic murders in its wake. As the deaths echo her research, she uncovers a disturbing link between creativity, blasphemy and a secret that others will kill to protect.

Decades after the events of Renegades, an ageing Sean Doyle is pulled from security work in Iraq when reports surface that his old enemy David Callahan has returned from the dead. Investigating, he finds occult forces raising corpses and a very personal revenge.

David and Amy Carson take their young daughter on a long dreamed‑of American road trip, unaware a child‑killing cult is operating along their route. As bodies mount and their own secrets surface, the family are driven toward a violent, soul‑testing confrontation.

A luxury glass tower on the Thames promises to reshape London’s skyline, but construction is shadowed by a string of horrific “accidents.” Journalist Jessica Anderson digs into the billionaire owner’s past and discovers an older evil tied to the site and his family.

Escaped from the guillotine, Victor Frankenstein lives in hiding as benevolent Dr Stein, using a charity hospital as cover for his experiments in transplanting brains and rebuilding bodies. When his latest creation breaks free, the town’s suspicions turn deadly.

After a fissure opens in a Buckinghamshire field, people begin dying, their bodies burned from within. Dr Adam Royston suspects a formless creature feeding on radiation is loose beneath the countryside and must be stopped before it reaches a city’s reactors.

Identical twins Maria and Frieda are sent to live with their puritan uncle, leader of a brutal anti‑witch brotherhood. While Maria submits, rebellious Frieda is drawn to decadent Count Karnstein, dragging both sisters into a clash between zealotry and vampirism.

A man awakens in darkness, pinned by satin on all sides, the air thick with an unfamiliar smell. Realising he is trapped in a coffin, he fights to escape while the story widens to show how he got there and how many others may share his fate.

Beaten by violent teenagers and grieving his daughter, schoolteacher Peter Mason takes a job at a remote boarding school, hoping for peace. Instead he finds a legacy of disappearances, cruelty and eerie events that suggest the past’s horrors are starting again.

Sent to a Hertfordshire town simmering with racial tension, TV journalist Nick Pearson investigates attacks on African immigrants and the desecration of a cemetery. As corpses vanish and ritualistic murders spread, he uncovers links to an ancient, terrifying belief.

Masked killers snatch strangers and hunt them for sport in deserted locations, filming every moment. As the sadistic “games” stream online, Detective Inspector Joe Chapman races to decode sparse clues, knowing each delay means another helpless victim on screen.

Emma Tate, reeling from loss and job troubles, retreats with her husband and friends to a luxury house near the village of Roxton. The village feeds on fear itself, twisting each guest’s deepest anxieties into physical, escalating horrors they may not survive.

A simple cash‑in robbery of an armoured van turns into a bloodbath, and someone starts murdering the surviving gang members and their families. On the run, Matt Franklin uncovers a link to a secret government research project and realises their enemy is inhuman.

This collection brings several of Hutson’s early crime‑horror novels together in one volume, following detectives and ordinary people as routine investigations slide into serial murder, madness and the kind of graphic set pieces that made his name.

A series of boys are found dead from apparent overdoses, each bearing two neat puncture marks. As DI Alan Fielding tries to stop the killer, loan sharks, desperate parents and a fragile little girl with a terrifying condition all collide in one brutal reckoning.

Once a bestselling author, Christopher Ward is washed up, drinking and blocked, until a new novel pours from his computer at night. The pages follow agent Sean Doyle on a terrorist case, and as Ward’s blackouts worsen, the boundary between fiction and murder frays.

A teenage gang terrorises an estate with burglaries and car thefts, then turns its attention to Shelby House, an old people’s home. After assaults and harassment leave residents in fear, the pensioners decide they have had enough and take brutal revenge of their own.

A bloody chase through Kingston’s streets ends with a Yardie gangster fleeing to Britain, where turf wars erupt between drug crews. When small time crook Frank Newton robs the wrong money, he is forced to go after a ruthless Yardie boss while police close in on everyone.

When Adam Walker rescues missing five year old Becky, her mother Hailey is grateful, then intrigued. Seeing a chance to punish her cheating husband, she draws Adam deeper into her life, unaware he has his own agenda and a chilling view of fame and violence.

Former model Amy now hosts a late night radio show with a confessional phone‑in. After two prostitutes are murdered following a caller’s brutal fantasies, Amy begins to suspect the charming man living in the flat below her. Then a caller warns that she will be next.

Back in Britain after years fighting terrorism in Ireland, Sean Doyle faces a new threat. Unhinged ex soldier Robert Neville rigs London with bombs and demands his estranged family be returned. Doyle must outthink a man who knows explosives and has nothing to lose.

Catherine and Phillip suspect a link between three apparent suicides, desecrated children’s graves and rumours of abuse at a school. As they dig, they confront a network of corruption and a predator whose crimes go far beyond what anyone has dared to imagine.

Beth Parker’s fragile marriage is strained further when her sister Lucy moves in, constantly taunting her about infertility. After Lucy dies in an accident, leaving Beth pregnant, motherhood finally seems possible, but a series of sinister events suggests someone wants the baby dead.

Investigating a hijacked weapons convoy in Northern Ireland, Sean Doyle uncovers an uneasy alliance between the IRA and Chinese Triad gangs. As bodies pile up on both sides and a turf war spills into London’s Chinatown, he is caught between two merciless factions.

Private detective Nick Ryan’s life is already in ruins when a gang kidnaps his daughter. With a terminal diagnosis ticking down and police getting nowhere, he embarks on an obsessive, violent hunt through London’s underbelly, determined to find her whatever the cost.

An underground chamber filled with the skulls of children is unearthed during building work, unleashing a wave of mutilation murders. As police and archaeologists investigate, hints of something older and far more malicious than any human killer begin to surface.

When Donna Ward’s novelist husband dies in a car crash with a young woman beside him, grief turns to suspicion. Her search for the truth uncovers a modern Hellfire Club, the Sons of Midnight, and a dangerous secret that powerful men will kill to bury again.

Told he has only months to live, burned‑out private eye Nick Ryan is handed one last nightmare when his daughter is abducted. Hunting a sadistic gang who kill for entertainment, he cuts through London’s criminal world, knowing he may die before he can save her.

A workman finds an ancient amulet in a graveyard and unwittingly unleashes a wave of supernatural terror. As strange deaths and blasphemous visions spread, a priest and a handful of others must face an evil that has been waiting centuries to return.

Counter‑terrorist agent Sean Doyle tracks a renegade IRA cell across Britain, Ireland and France, only to discover their campaign is tied to a medieval serial killer and a stained glass window that may hold the secret of immortality. Stopping them could cost his sanity.

A non fiction companion for horror fans, this quiz book gathers hundreds of questions about classic and modern fright films, testing your memory of plots, killers, scream queens and obscure trivia in short quizzes ideal for solo challenges or late night parties.

DI Frank Gregson faces a baffling case when new murders exactly copy killings committed years earlier by men still locked in a maximum‑security prison. As the body count rises he must uncover who is orchestrating the crimes and how past atrocities are repeating.

After their young daughter is murdered, John and Sue Hackett move to the seemingly quiet town of Hinkston. The peace is shattered by a string of savage killings, and the couple discover the community is hiding a fifty‑year‑old secret soaked in blood.

On the brutal Eastern Front, Sergeant Kessler and Assault Section Sledgehammer are thrown into yet another suicidal mission, facing Russian armour, partisan ambushes and ruthless superiors. The men must decide whether their loyalty lies with the Reich or simply with each other.

Gang boss Frank Harrison rules London’s underworld until an unseen enemy starts wiping out his men with military precision. As shootings, kidnappings and car bombings escalate, Harrison realises the only way to survive may be to unleash a mysterious hired killer known only as the Assassin.

Still riding with Assault Section Sledgehammer, ruthless bounty hunter Track sees a chance at a fortune when rumours of hidden Apache gold surface. Seizing a war chief and crossing treacherous territory, he faces vengeful tribes, corrupt officers and the lethal greed of his companions.

After a special‑effects accident destroys one of his eyes, movie makeup wizard Frank Miller receives a transplant and starts seeing strange glowing auras. When people marked by the light begin dying, he realises he may be glimpsing those fated to become a killer’s victims.

In this wartime thriller, elite German troops of Section Sledgehammer are ordered to snatch a vital objective deep behind enemy lines. Surrounded by vengeful Russians, treacherous officers and their own fraying nerves, the men learn that survival may demand unforgivable choices.

The American Civil War is over, but the man now called Track still lives for combat. Working as a bounty hunter, he goes after vicious half breed Lone Wolf, teaming up with crack shot Holly Fulton and discovering he may enjoy killing more than he admits.

Some men kill because they must, but Track kills because he chooses to. Hunting wanted gunman Jim Galton for a huge reward, he is once again joined by Holly Fulton, whose belief in Galton’s innocence clashes with Track’s greed as ambushes close in on them both.

Charismatic healer Jonathan Mathias removes tumours without touching his patients and claims to harness hidden human power, not faith. When sceptical writer David Blake investigates, he’s drawn into psychic research, astral experiments and a battle over whether souls can be manipulated like puppets.

Ordered to hold an exposed position against overwhelming Russian forces, Kessler’s section know that higher command expects them to die buying time. As the lines collapse and betrayal looms within their own ranks, the men must decide what they are willing to die for, if anything.

On the frozen Eastern Front, Assault Section Sledgehammer are sent on a mission that amounts to a death sentence. Battling Soviet armour, blizzards and a ruthless German officer pursuing his own glory, Kessler and his men discover war is forging them into something harder and crueller than steel.

The mutant carnivorous slugs thought destroyed have returned, breeding in London’s sewers. As they spread a new plague that drives victims insane and turns them into killers, Dr Alan Finch races to find a way to wipe out the breeding ground before the city falls.

Spring 1943, and Assault Section Sledgehammer are being driven back by the Red Army. When ambitious Major Schrodek schemes to win his son an Iron Cross, Sergeant Kessler’s refusal to play along sparks a deadly feud that may kill more Germans than the enemy does.

In the farming town of Wakely, new animal feed from Vanderburg Chemicals makes livestock grow huge and vicious. As people develop strange symptoms and the town is quietly sealed off, journalist Jo Ward and farmer Vic Tyler uncover a corporate experiment turning neighbours into something like vampires.

In a rain‑lashed English town, a series of brutal deaths seems linked to a mysterious stranger and a group of children behaving disturbingly alike. As night falls and the killings intensify, a few residents realise something ancient and predatory is hunting through their streets.

Written under a pseudonym, this early splatter novel follows a chainsaw‑wielding killer hacking a trail through a small community. As mutilated bodies pile up, local police and a handful of survivors race to stop the faceless butcher before they become the next screaming victims.

Fighting under another name, Hutson follows a scratch German unit flung from one desperate engagement to another as the war turns against them. Ammunition, food and faith run short, but orders keep coming, and the men of the task force learn that retreat is forbidden.

Released from a mental hospital, Harold Pierce takes a job incinerating aborted foetuses, triggering memories of his baby brother’s death. When a convicted killer escapes nearby, their paths cross in a wave of mutilation that suggests something far worse than human madness is at work.

In this Eastern Front tale, Section Sledgehammer are ordered to seize and hold a strategic farm complex nicknamed the Slaughterhouse. Surrounded by Soviet troops and trapped with a brutal SS officer, Kessler’s men descend into a grinding battle where survival demands shocking brutality.

As German forces struggle through a savage Russian winter, Sergeant Kessler leads Assault Section Sledgehammer on a mission across snowbound territory. Hunted by partisans and wolves, plagued by frostbite and despair, the men discover that the cold may not be their most dangerous enemy.

When an ancient skull is unearthed and taken as a curiosity, its evil influence begins to warp the people around it. Nightmares, sudden violence and occult rituals spread through a small community until someone realises the relic itself may need to be destroyed.

A heatwave awakens a mutant strain of carnivorous slug in the town of Merton. As residents die in hideous, slimy ways and officials refuse to believe the truth, health inspector Mike Brady fights to stop an infestation that turns gardens, cellars and sewers into killing grounds.

This first Assault Section Sledgehammer novel drops readers into savage Eastern Front combat, following Sergeant Kessler and his men through tank attacks, close‑quarters ambushes and clashes with their own officers. The war strips them down to raw instinct and a will simply to kill first.

Christmas 1941: General Bucher wants priceless art from a castle three hundred miles behind Russian lines. Sergeant Rolf Kessler and Section Sledgehammer must break in, steal the treasures and escape through snow, Cossacks and betrayal before the mission becomes a frozen massacre.

A massive armoured train carrying tanks and troops must cross 150 miles of partisan‑infested territory. Section Sledgehammer are assigned to guard it, knowing the enemy has sworn to destroy it. Sabotage, ambushes and claustrophobic battles on the rails make this their bloodiest mission yet.

In 1944 a German unit massacres villagers in a French church. Awarded the Iron Cross for his part, Sergeant Herzog refuses to wear it and is court‑martialled, then sent to the collapsing Eastern Front, where he fights for survival and some shred of personal honour.